Ken Chen (born 1979 San Diego, California) is an American poet and lawyer.
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Chen was born to immigrants from Taiwan and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area.[1] He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, where he obtained a BA in English Literature (with a minor in Creative Writing) and Yale Law School, where he earned a JD.
He was an editor of Arts & Letters Daily while at Berkeley and worked at Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP after law school. He is currently director of the Asian American Writers' Workshop.[2]
His writing has been published the Art Asia Pacific, Boston Review of Books, Manoa, Field, Pleiades,[3] and Barrow Street, Bridge, Radical Society, 5 Fingers Review,[4] and Palimpsest.
He lives in Brooklyn, New York.[5][6]